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From: John Aldrich
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Well, the new hard drive got here this morning and I installed it. I don't
currently have a copy of Vista Home Premium (OEM) that I can install from,
so I'm installing Ubuntu on the machine right now. Hopefully that will go
well enough that I can use it. Also hoping I can manage to get the wireless
working as I'd REALLY hate to be tethered to an ethernet cable. I mean,
laptops are *supposed* to be mobile, right? :D Anyway, we'll see how things
go, but right now, it seems as if Ubuntu is installing properly and
everything! :)

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From: Phil Sieg
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WHY in the name of GOD would you EVER install VISTA????=20
If you need Windoze, use XP, or 7. VISTA?
I do not CARE if the laptop has the appropriate code for Vista on the =
bottom. 90% of the time Vista drivers will work with 7 and 7 is a FAR =
better OS as those things go...
Phil Sieg
President
SeniorTech LLC / snapf=C5=8Dn=C2=AE
www.snapfon.com
Phone: 423.535.9968
Fax: 423.265.9820
Mobile: 423.331.0725
"The computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. =
It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
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From: John Aldrich
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Well.... I *am* trying to be legit. :D I might try a Windows 7 upgrade from
Vista later. Mainly just interested in testing out full functionality at
this point. I hope I can avoid installing Windows at all and just use
Ubuntu, but I'm not sure Ubuntu will see the wireless. :(

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From: Stephen Kraus
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I'm with Phil on this, the performance differences and stability between
vista and 7 is staggering. Vista is complete and utter crap

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From: Phil Sieg
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The new interface SUCKS.
In an effort to be more intuitive (read: like APPLE), they have made it =
into the hardest to use OS since we left the command line behind...
Yes it is easy to browse, email etc... but try doing anything else if =
you don't know what you are looking for...
Phil Sieg
President
SeniorTech LLC / snapf=C5=8Dn=C2=AE
www.snapfon.com
Phone: 423.535.9968
Fax: 423.265.9820
Mobile: 423.331.0725
"The computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. =
It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
card and RAM) Dell Mini 9. What's better about 10.04?
wrote:
with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."
the
FAR
upgrade from=20
at=20

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From: Aaron welch
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+5
I have had more trouble out of 11.x than any other linux install over the
past 5 years. Grub2 has broken perfectly working machines, display drivers
do not work right off the bat, and I HATE the icon based menus.
-AW
om

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From: Cameron Kilgore
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No Unity. Also the 11 releases brought a torrent of hardware issues for me.
Unity isn't a reinvention of interfaces, its a badly executed case of NIH
that strips the control you had in Gnome out of your hands in favor of poor
window management, poorly thought out workflow, and a
persistent sacrifice of screen real estate.
Downgrade now, or switch to Ubuntu Classic or Xfce. You will learn to hate
Unity very quickly.
--Cameron

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From: Phil Sieg
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What he said!
Couldn't remember the name of the FRAKIN new interface: UNITY
Unified Piece of Shit is more like it.
Cameron nailed it, just a little less colorfully.
Phil Sieg
President
SeniorTech LLC / snapf=C5=8Dn=C2=AE
www.snapfon.com
Phone: 423.535.9968
Fax: 423.265.9820
Mobile: 423.331.0725
"The computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. =
It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
for me.=20
NIH that strips the control you had in Gnome out of your hands in favor =
of poor window management, poorly thought out workflow, and a persistent =
sacrifice of screen real estate.
hate Unity very quickly.
card and RAM) Dell Mini 9. What's better about 10.04?
wrote:
with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."
the
FAR
upgrade from=20
at=20

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From: William Wade
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I dislike Unity as well, but overall have had no more problems with
11.10 than I have had with 9-10. My wife's laptop even had a few LONG
outstanding issues fixed (Pulseaudio actually works now for example.
There is one reason not to revisit 10s. Or you will have to at least
eradicate pulse). Not to mention a better kernel in 11.10.
Anyway I suggest latest and install the GUI of your choice instead of
getting all tussled over the default choices. Last I checked TWM was
still in the repos.
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From: William Wade
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From: John Aldrich
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Is Xubuntu 11 good or should I stick with 10.04?

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From: John Aldrich
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Kewl. I've burned Xubuntu 11.11 and am working on installing it over Ubuntu
11.11 right now.

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From: John Aldrich
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Well, I checked the Batteries+ website. They want nearly $100 for a new
battery for this laptop. Thank goodness for Froogle! :D Amazon only wants
about $40 for a "extended run" battery for this laptop!

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From: Rod-Lists
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I disagree with Cameron & Phil on unity.
At 1st I didn't like it but once I learned where the moved the furniture I got along with it well.
Hell even winders move the furniture around forcing you to relearn where things are.
But then again unity is not for hard core geeks it is meant to lure people raised on phones and ipads.
If you want a real geek interce do a command line install of ubuntu or debian then install openbox.
Otherwise install squeeze with the standard gnome desktop minus the buttons on the left if miss the old ubuntu.